2-1603. Contract market. All boards of trade which have not been designated a contract market by the secretary of agriculture under the act of congress are hereby declared to be and are designated as "a contract market" and affected with a public interest. History: L. 1925, ch. 6, § 3; February 23. Cross References to Related Sections: Act of congress, see 49 Stat. 1497; 7 U.S.C. § 7. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Cited in holding, bucket-shop statute inapplicable to interstate transactions. Clark v. Murphy, 142 Kan. 426, 429, 49 P.2d 973.